Offer Gives Zend Core 2.0 Users Free Access to Zend Network Updater

CUPERTINO, Calif. - Zend Technologies, the PHP company, has announced a new version of Zend Core™, the industry’s leading PHP distribution. Zend Core 2.0 is based on PHP 5.2.1 and complements PHP with enhancements to improve development, deepen database support, enhance Windows integration and provide enterprise-class support. Zend Core is available for free and can be downloaded at www.zend.com/core.

PHP is the popular open source language used to create over 20 million websites, from simple personal sites to advanced Web 2.0 and enterprise web applications. The ability to quickly and easily create and modify PHP sites has fueled its success and helped attract a worldwide community of over 4.5 million developers. Large, established technology vendors, like IBM, Microsoft and Oracle, have embraced PHP and work with Zend to optimize PHP for each company’s products.